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muffins

Posted 20 December 2007 - 06:53 PM

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I know that drivers and bios are different things. The BIOS update was for the card and it said that the update was to increase fan automatic fan performance. The drivers I have updated to the latest. And yeah Just waitin' on James

james_8970

Posted 20 December 2007 - 08:31 PM

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Did you press 8 to turn the multisampling up to 16x and did you run it at full screen. If you don't run the program in full screen mode, the 3D temps won't kick in.
Can you list your complete system specs, including the number of hard drives and so on.
What was the card you had installed before this one?
What video card drivers are you running?
Have you disabled you onboard sound card?
James

muffins

Posted 20 December 2007 - 08:40 PM

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Did you press 8 to turn the multisampling up to 16x and did you run it at full screen. If you don't run the program in full screen mode, the 3D temps won't kick in.Not to 16x. I'll try that. I did have it fullscreen.

muffins

Posted 20 December 2007 - 11:47 PM

Meh, still crashed after about 45 minutes of play with sound off. I'm going insane here. I just wish I could prove DEFINITELY which thing is causing the problem.

I WAS in Ventrilo though while I was playing and that started looping during the crash. (Ventrilo is a voice chat program). I don't have time to figure out if it'll crash without the sound card enabled period. I have to get up tomorrow @ 8am EST. I will be up for another 20 mins or so though.

I just tried using this Sound Card test program just to see if it would lockup my system. I got a BSOD when I ran it.

Also this comes up when I press Stop after recording something in Sound Recorder.

I found that link. This is really describing what is going on. The RAM in the system is fine.

Now there are a bunch of things pointing to the PSU:- Lockup or freeze is a symptom- There is a possibility it is a bad PSU- I know that you think you may know whether the PSU is enough for the system but many people and calculators keep saying that its not enough.- The freezes get closer and closer as if the PSU is just dying- The card is running at normal temperatures and not overheating.- The RAM is clean according to memtest and microsoft ram diagnostic tools.

Also, I was just looking at the reviews for the PSU I have and they talk about how a lot of them died after a few boots and that this PSU runs too hot (140F).

2nd EDIT:

I really don't know what to think anymore. So many conflicting things.

fenzodahl512

Posted 21 December 2007 - 02:45 PM

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Hi muffin, dont panic, you can always RMA your PSU and VGA card (within warranty period) as long as you didn't do any modification on it Only the downside is you may have to wait few weeks for the replacement

I dont know wether Forceware 169.09 version support 8800GT or not as it is relatively new card (but I think it should), but most gamers (in my place) swore thats the best driver for their 8800GTX/GTS till now.. you maydownload it here and give it a shot..

-edit-about PSU, in my case, I overclocked my quad to 3.6 at 1.400vcore and my X2900XT consumed lots more power than your 8800GT. That's why my old Silverstone Strider 560watt couldn't handle it. Plus I have two 12cm high performance fan and using two SATA HDD and one Raptor (as my primary). But in your case I think your PSU should be enough.....

muffins

Posted 21 December 2007 - 08:18 PM

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I think I fixed it accidentally xD!

Today I opened up my case to put on this alternative CPU cooler I have and it was a tiny bit bigger and wouldn't fit the slots correctly (or I'm too stupid to do it right) and so I ended up putting the old CPU cooler back on. Before I put it back on though I opened the processor area and readjusted the chip. I also reduced the card to 900mhz and turned the fan up to 100% when I'm gaming. Since then I've played WoW for 1hr+ periods time several times today and no crashes.